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'Man Drinking.' Thr rich luminosity of colour and fluid handling of paint always hung on a strong sense of structure and design for Richard Diebenkorn. It's no great surprise to find his deep reverence for Cezanne.
Returning to Hilda af Klint, this is her extraordinary watercolour, 'A Map of Great Britain,' (1932), in which she said she foresaw the Second World War. A pale face blows fire towards Britain.
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Who painted this picture, what is unusual about it and where did the artist live?
Evelyn St George was undoubtedly the most important person in William Orpen's life. She gave him happiness and she gave him love. She inspired him as an artist. She told him what a great painter should do, what sort of pictures he should paint and how he should view the world.
Eileen Mayo by Edith Lawrence is a very rare depiction for 1926, a female artist by another female artist. Both were alumnae of the Grosvenor School as well as the Slade, Lawrence having studied there alongside David Bomberg, Nevinson, and Stanley Spencer.
Although Paula Rego didn't title this painting, the situation was most likely based on a real event. Many of her works have begun in actuality or someone else's storytelling. In fact, storytelling was at the heart of everything she did and everything she painted.
'The Gardens at Rutland Place.' John Aldridge had slipped off the map of the Great Bardfield artists' but his stark and wiry work is firmly back in favour together with his contemporaries Bawden and Ravilious, both watercolour painters of real genius.
'Snow at Durham Wharf.' (1947) As a self-taught artist, Julian Trevelyan passionately believed that art should be part of everyday life; he admired Alfred Wallis and visited the Pitmen Painters in their tin hut studio at Ashington Colliery. Durham Wharf was his studio in London.
'The Potato Diggers,' is one of Paul Henry's most accomplished works. Henry went to Achill Island for the first time in August 1910 and like Millet, he wanted to paint a scene of life as it really was.
'Judith Allen in a White Hat.' Joash Woodrow was one of the most significant artistic figures in postwar British art sharing the intensely expressive figurative language and dense manipulation of paint of Frank Auerbach, sadly a major breakdown meant he lived a reclusive life.